Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?

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Post by decafninja » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

Before I married, I played a decent amount of games, but found that I was growing less and less interested. I’ve since stopped entirely.

Nowadays the closest thing to a traditional hobby I have is discovering and reading books off Amazon Kindle Unlimited.

With my wife, we love to travel and spend time looking for new destinations (or rediscovering old ones!) and planning trips. We usually take two international trips a year (Europe and/or Asia) and a few domestic trips (usually to the West coast) as well.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?

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Post by arduinomancer » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 2:24 AM UTC

Ripping through single track forest trails on 2-stroke dirt bikes

I joke that it’s the most opposite activity from programming

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?

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Post by rozenmd » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 6:10 AM UTC

Building B2B SaaS is one of mine. I'm not joking.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?

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Post by 2rsf » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 7:18 AM UTC

digital_sawzall wrote: post #18

2rsf wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm into it as well, but how do you define it as a hobby? Some people tinker with watches, building or fixing them, but does owning a few watches and discussing them online count as a hobby?

Most people I know have apple watches so researching mechanic movements and models is enough for hobby status to me. Like any other 'collecting' hobby. But yes I've taken a few apart to try to fix and service them, even if it's only with my $20 amazon repair tool set.

Cool, when I grow up I plan on ordering one of those "build you own watch" kits

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?

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Post by majortennis » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 10:17 AM UTC

Ocerge wrote: post #20

Golf. I understand the image it has, and it's somewhat well-deserved, but the munis are teeming with fascinating people from all walks of life. I've made more friends in the past 5 years since I picked the game up than I did in the previous 10+ years of my post-college life combined. I love the ego check it gives me while rewarding real practice and patience. I also carry my clubs every round which makes it effective…

I picked up golf in March with some second hand clubs from a car boot, I've probably played 50 rounds since then and I love it. I've been asked if it's boring and it's anything but , Hitting a clean flush is the best feeling ever even if i only hit a handful over a round the satisfaction of improvement is huge. I try not to carry if i can for courses with lots of walking. I want to invest in a trolley